When he joined A. Lange & Söhne as director of product development in 2004, Anthony de Haas made building a striking watch a primary goal. “One thing was missing, and that was the fact that we were not making striking watches—no sonneries, no minute repeaters,” he says. “There was no knowhow.” De Haas, who had worked on grande sonneries and minute repeaters at the renowned specialty house Renaud et Papi, changed that with the introduction of 2013’s Grand Complication, featuring a grande sonnerie, petite sonnerie, and minute repeater, in addition to a perpetual calendar and monopusher split-seconds chronograph with flying seconds. “The object was to start where our grandfathers had stopped and continue,” he says. “That was the beginning of a new era at A. Lange & Söhne—the era of striking watches.”
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